One daughter has made her beautiful mom Internet-popular in a matter of days. Recently, Twitter user @shipilkins uploaded a picture of her 43-year-old mother who looks nothing like her age, and it already has over 25K likes. After the tweet went viral, others started replying to it with photos of their own young-looking moms. However, it became clear pretty early on that this "beauty contest" will have multiple winners because these gorgeous, forever young "participants" look as if they found the elixir of life!
(h/t brightside)
This post may include affiliate links.
Beauty contests, celebrating a woman as a symbol of community solidarity and fertility, has a long and continuing history in Europe and North America. However, you could say their modern form came to be during the second half of the nineteenth century when women were frequently displayed in publicly staged events across the US. These events were met with little protest as long as the occasion and its organizers were 'respectable.'
I'm so jealous ! I'm a teacher too but it often feels like students suck the life out of me 😁
Women didn't wear swimsuits in public until the early twentieth century. The public staging of semi-naked women, however, developed together with modern popular culture and beauty standards, where low and high-class values became mixed and bathing beauties could be shown in movies and advertisements.
Eventually, everything came together in 1921, when Atlantic City hosted the first Miss America contest. So as not to offend public morals, the sensual aspects of the contest were obscured by a week-long, elaborate festival which included sports events, automobile races, as well as orchestra and choir competitions.
After receiving quite a bit of suspicion, beauty contests became really popular in the 1950s, with civil associations like the Jaycees and Rotary organizing them. Through mass media, the model of the contest spread all over the world. However, beauty contests still face criticism as people continue to argue that these events promote unrealistic expectations of what women are expected to, and should, look like.
she is beautiful but it really isn't fair to post pictures that are filtered or touched up and then say "see how young she looks" it's not genuine
She looks like she's had work done - but I guess it could be a filter - definitely not natural.
When did the 30’s and 40’s become old? I mean,posting a photo of a lady in her,lets say 37,and being surprised she looks young (and beautiful) is beyond my way of seeing it.
Exactly. I'm 39 and glad that my kids are too young to be posting this.
Load More Replies...A lot of these women look their age, the do look really good, but certainly look their age. Plus what is wrong with looking 49 when you are 49?
I was thinking the same.... I mean, many of them are barely 40 or 45. Yes they look super cute but they are still young!!!!
Load More Replies...I guess kids these days think you turn into a wrinkled, old, gray prune when turning 30? Most of them look their age and the ones that don't, use a lot of makeup, perfect poses and overexposure to look younger.
Why people are surprised that these women look like women and not young girls??? I'm 36 and honestly want to look 36 - not 18. Age is just the number of times you've circled the sun... it has absolutely nothing to do with how you feel, how you look or how you act.
Load More Replies...When did the 30’s and 40’s become old? I mean,posting a photo of a lady in her,lets say 37,and being surprised she looks young (and beautiful) is beyond my way of seeing it.
Exactly. I'm 39 and glad that my kids are too young to be posting this.
Load More Replies...A lot of these women look their age, the do look really good, but certainly look their age. Plus what is wrong with looking 49 when you are 49?
I was thinking the same.... I mean, many of them are barely 40 or 45. Yes they look super cute but they are still young!!!!
Load More Replies...I guess kids these days think you turn into a wrinkled, old, gray prune when turning 30? Most of them look their age and the ones that don't, use a lot of makeup, perfect poses and overexposure to look younger.
Why people are surprised that these women look like women and not young girls??? I'm 36 and honestly want to look 36 - not 18. Age is just the number of times you've circled the sun... it has absolutely nothing to do with how you feel, how you look or how you act.
Load More Replies...